For my last post of 2014 I wanted to show, with pictures, the books I
read and spent so much time with this year.

Back in January of 2014 I set out to read 30 books as part of my
Reading
Challenge.
I wanted to focus on reading Brazilian authors early on as I felt that I
really needed to learn more about Brazilian literature and this time,
read books for fun and not because I was told to back when I was much
younger.

Making a quick pit stop to mark this milestone in my professional
career: today is my 3-year anniversary at Red Hat! Time has certainly
flown by and I really cannot believe that it has been three years since
I joined this company.

I know it is sort of cliche to say "I can not believe that it has been
this long..." and so on and so forth, but it is so true. Back then I
joined a relatively new project with very high ambitions, and the first
few months had me swimming way out in the deepest part of the pool,
trying to learn all 'Red Hat-things' and Clojure for the existing
automation framework (now we are fully using Python).

Woke up this morning and, as usual, sat down to read the Books
section of The New York Times while drinking my coffee. This has
become sort of a 'tradition' for me and because of it I have been able
to learn about many interesting books, some of which I would not have
found out on my own. I also 'blame' this activity to turning my
nightstand into a mini-library on its own.

Background

It was around 2005 when I started doing translations for Free and
Open-Source Software. Back then I was warmly welcomed to the Ubuntu
family and quickly learned all there was to know about using their
Rosetta online tool to translate and/or review existing translations for
the Brazilian Portuguese language. I spent so much time doing it, even
during working hours, that eventually I sort of "made a name for myself"
and made my way up to the upper layers of the Ubuntu Community echelon.

Then I "graduated" and started doing translations for the upstream
projects, such as GNOME, Xfce, LXDE, and Openbox. I took on more
responsabilities, learned to use Git and make commits for myself as well
as for other contributors, and strived to unify all Brazilian Portuguese
translations across as many different projects as possible. Many
discussions were had, (literally) hundreds of hours were spent going
though also hundreds of thoundands of translations for hundreds of
different applications, none of it bringing me any monetary of financial
advantage, but all done for the simple pleasure of knowing that I was
helping make FOSS applications "speak" Brazilian Portuguese.

My parents were eagerly awaiting our arrival on an early Spring morning,
and when our plane finally landed after the almost 10 1/2 hours flight
and we made our way to the luggage claim area, the reunion was filled
with a lot of hugging, laughter and a huge sigh ...

Today I'm releasing FauxFactory 0.2.0 with a new feature, a "Lorem
Ipsum" generator. I confess that I did not look around for any existing
implementation in python out there and just started writing code. My
idea was to create a method that would:

So I've been trying to hire two python developers to join my automation
team here at Red Hat since last November,
2013... and believe it or not, so far I've had absolutely zero success
in finding good, strong, with real world experience candidates in North
Carolina! I either ...

*Disclaimer: This is more of a note for myself than a proper
tutorial or howto, so I make no promises that this will work for you.
The setup used through this post was a Mac OS laptop upgraded to the
very latest version of the OS.*